More can be added to the earlier biography.
In the tax returns of 1412 Flore’s estates in Rutland were assigned an annual value of £48 p.a., making him comfortably the most substantial gentry landholder in the county. However, not all of this was derived from his own estates for he enjoyed an income of £25 p.a. from the lands of his ward and son-in-law, (Sir) Henry Pleasington*. Judging from the valuations in the returns, his own lands in the county were of similar value to those of other leading families there, such as Burton and Basings. Yet this underestimates his wealth. Not only was his landed income supplemented by his holdings outside Rutland and by various annuities, but he enhanced his local resources by farming the tithes and demesne of Westminster abbey’s rectory at Oakham.
The most important omission from the earlier biography is Flore’s tenure of the office of mayor of the Calais staple at the end of Henry IV’s reign. His appointment is to be explained by interest in the wool trade. Another new reference reflects his standing as a lawyer. At Stamford on 23 Sept. 1424 he headed a panel of four arbiters who returned an award in a dispute between the wealthy Nottinghamshire esquire, Hugh Willoughby*, on the one part, and John Billing and John Frende, over the park at Willoughby’s manor of Dunsby in Lincolnshire.